The Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department provides outpatient ... These tests are useful to evaluate the cause of shortness of breath and to determine overall exercise tolerance.

To carry out these activities our lungs are constantly exposed to the outside environment. With each breath pollens, dust, germs, chemicals in the air, animal dander, and tobacco smoke can enter our ...

These volumes can be seen in this spirometry trace. During exercise, tidal volume increases as the depth of breathing increases and the rate of breathing increases too. This has the effect of ...

These changes within the pulmonary system optimise the ability to transport oxygen to the locomotor muscles yet minimise the work of breathing necessary to support this function. A reduction in ...

For people in the MetroWest region living with lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, ...

His companion, who was not a physician, wrote in his diary as follows: The next few hours W.B.'s breathing became ... the left ventricle and pulmonary edema. Since exercise and severe cold ...

The term for inflammation within the lung tissue is pneumonitis. The symptoms of pneumonitis that you may experience are fever, chest pain, shortness of breath, and cough. An infection caused by ...

Background—Pulmonary ... after exercise. Objective—To investigate whether measurement position affects this impaired gas transfer. Methods—Before and one, two, and four hours after incremental cycle ...

The Arsenic-Poisoning Epidemic of 1900 — Its Relation to Lung Cancer in 1960 — an Exercise in Retrospective Epidemiology Author : Henry S. Satterlee , M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published ...

A team of doctors and researchers have identified a new, rare type of small cell lung cancer that primarily affects younger people who have never smoked. A team of doctors and researchers at ...

Roivant has acquired from Bayer, the German pharma company, an experimental drug called mosliciguat that will be developed as a treatment for certain types of pulmonary hypertension, a family of ...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can be trained to detect lung disease in premature babies by analyzing their breathing patterns while they sleep, according to research presented at the European ...